No, not really. INTERNATIONAL CRIME starring Rod La Rocque claims it is a Shadow Movie. La Rocque stars as Lamont Cranston. There is a Commissioner Weston. But there is no caped mystery man with a blazing .45 in each hand. There isn’t any ability to cloud men’s minds. There's just a crime reporter who writes a column, and does a radio show under the name The Shadow. Everybody knows who he is - the police, the bad guys, even the cab driver who is always driving him around. If you are like me and like to go through the cheap DVDs looking for something special (I did get FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE for $2 that way) avoid this one. It is not even bad enough to be good.
A GREAT SHADOW MOVIE FROM 1938
No, not really. INTERNATIONAL CRIME starring Rod La Rocque claims it is a Shadow Movie. La Rocque stars as Lamont Cranston. There is a Commissioner Weston. But there is no caped mystery man with a blazing .45 in each hand. There isn’t any ability to cloud men’s minds. There's just a crime reporter who writes a column, and does a radio show under the name The Shadow. Everybody knows who he is - the police, the bad guys, even the cab driver who is always driving him around. If you are like me and like to go through the cheap DVDs looking for something special (I did get FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE for $2 that way) avoid this one. It is not even bad enough to be good.
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This is the last listing of weird aircraft built and flown in America in the 20s and 30s. There are a few that I left out, mainly those that didn’t fly or crashed on their first flight.
Campbell F http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/campbell-f.html Great Lakes XSG-1 http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/great-lakes-xsg-1.html McGaffey Aviate http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/mcgaffey-aviate.html Nemeth http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/nemeth.html Northrup Flying Wing (his first one) http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/northrup.html Stearman-Hammond http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/stearman-hammond.html Stout Skycar http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/stout-skycar.html Vance http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/vance.html Weick http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/weick.html Here is a YouTube video on the Abrams Explorer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsaAeLaNr60 A couple battle reports from my ongoing Where Heroes Dare campaign.
A Dinosaur in Chicago http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/dinosaurs.html An Unwelcomed Visit http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/an-unwelcomed-visit.html When I get some painting and modeling done I’ll be ready for the Isla de los Dragones in the Lagoon de la Muerte adventure. Dinosaurs and pirates and robots, oh my! Burnelli’s Flying Wings Most of the aircraft I have covered so far have been oddities that in the end didn’t amount to anything. Vincent Burnelli’s work was a serious attempt to radically change aircraft design. It didn’t succeed but was a noble effort to build a better airplane. Which he actually did. Why his designs went nowhere, even after many successful demonstrations, is a mystery to me. Some claim it was a conspiracy by the airlines and/or airplane manufacturers and/or the government. I think it was more the case that his designs were so different that people couldn’t accept them. Though called flying wings, they are actually what is known as lifting bodies, because they had tails. True flying wings are suppose to be tailess. RB-2 http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/rb-2.html CB-16 http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/cb-16.html UB-20 http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/ub-20.html UB-14 http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/ub-14.html Though this after the time period that this series of posts covers, Burnelli built one more aircraft during the war, the CBY-3 Loadmaster. It could take off in less room and carry a ton more cargo than a DC-3, but by the time it flew (1945) DC-3’s were cheap and readily available. Now why is this plane so important to Pulp Gamers. Please note the following photo of the bad’ guy’s airplane from the Dick Tracy Serial and the Fighting Devil Dogs serial. So let’s hear it for the Burnelli Flying Wings, The Pulpiest of all Pulp Airplanes.
Some more weird aircraft
Besler http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/besler.html Brown http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/brown.html A lot of people and companies you’ve never heard of built air planes in the 20’s and 30’s. Usually just one or a few, but sometimes several dozen. Most were conventional such as a two-seater biplane with fixed landing gear or a high wing monoplane three engine transport, but some were a little strange. Since my gaming has shut down for a while I thought I’d go over some of the stranger planes that might be suitable for pulp gaming.
Alcor Duo 6 http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/alcour-duo.html American Gyro Crusader http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/american-gyro.html Arup Flying Wing http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/arup.html Auto Giro http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/auto-giro.html Abrams http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/abrams.html I recommend the following two sites for more info on American planes of all eras. http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/index.php http://www.aerofiles.com/aircraft.html The GI Joe Rise of Cobra line has a neat miniature called the Mole Pod. I can't decide if I'm going to use it for Pulp or VSF.
http://captainbill.weebly.com/mole-machine.html I found a bunch of cheap ($2.25 a package) furniture for 25/28mm miniature gaming. There is little available from gaming companies but you don't get much choice and it costs alot. The furniture is generally good for the late 1800s to 1930s time period.
http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/furniture-and-figures.html In Southern Illinois, in the early Twenties, two groups of gangsters/moonshiners had their own armored cars. One gang even tried aerial bombing!!!
http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/armored-cars-of-southern-illinois.html A couple more airplane models that are good for Pulp gaming.
The first is the Franklin Mint's Junker F-13. This wonderful model comes both as a landplane and a floatplane. The only problem is that it is usually expensive ($50 plus and usually $100 plus) and I can find alot of other cool Pulp stuff to buy for that price. http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/junker-f-13.html The other is a Lockheed Orion, another good standard Pulp airplane. made by made by Liberty Classics or Spec Diecast. http://mysteriousbill.weebly.com/lockheed-orion.html |
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